American novelists, poets, and musicians made their way to Paris in the 1920’s where life was inexpensive and tolerant, a place where they could gather and share experiences very unlike those of the conventional Midwest where many of them had been raised. This class will explore works by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American authors most closely associated with this time and place, to learn why Gertrude Stein called the American expatriates the Lost Generation.

The books required are available at the Calvin University Campus Store or online, new or used:

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, ISBN 978-1439182710

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, ISBN 978-1982199524

Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ISBN 978-9355278814

          Subject: literature

Judith K. Simonson is a retired attorney who has read many fiction and non-fiction works about the interwar years in Europe ever since the excellent professor who taught her senior seminar introduced her to the Lost Generation of writers in Paris in the 1920s.